Apple has indeed updated its iMac line, as anticipated, beefing up the line's speeds'n'feeds and adding support for the new SDXC memory card format.
The new models sport a selection of Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processors and come with 4GB of 1333MHz DDR 3 as standard.
Apple iMac summer 2010
And Apple has dropped Nvidia …

USB3? who cares

future proof...?

USB3 is lacking in PC hardware as well, apart from the top end products. I couldn't care less about USB3 until Intel finalizes their silicon and brings faster and more mature products than the NEC chips in use today. The USB3 devices are in their infancy as well. I don't dispute the fact that USB2 is a bottleneck for external storage.

However, Apple has made several poor decisions on the hardware front:

- Blu-ray is still not an option for these machines (because Apple knows what's best for consumers, right?)

- Displayport is fine, but why, oh why the Mini version? It's not like this computer didn't have space for a regular one.

- Only 4 USB ports. Double that would be the standard in a PC.

- Firewire 800 - a dying breed even in Apple's eyes. Many (H)DV cameras are supplied with only USB these days.

Re: Quite right!

Something like the FingerWorks pad they killed off, then?

Wow. It looks like Apple have finally launched something resembling a replacement to one of the TouchWorks products they killed off after buying up the company back in 2005, in the form of the new Magic Trackpad. What's the betting that everyone will see this as some kind of amazing Apple innovation, rather than a shiner but more limited version of hardware invented elsewhere and Borged by them?

ODFO!

Damned screens...

So everything is going to be 16:9 now? How wide do we need computer screens to get? I hope we never get to the point of 22:7 or whatever the actual cinema aspect ratio is, this is getting a bit insane.

16:9

Having recently bought a 27" monitor, the fact it's 16:9 and not 16:10 is a non-issue when the screen's almost 34cm high and you've got a vertical resolution of 1440 pixels. A 16:10 27" is less than 3cm higher.

And no, I can't see 2.35:1 aspect screens (presumably the "cinema aspect" to which you refer, although a monitor whose aspect ratio is an approximation of pi might be worthy of geek cred) becoming mainstream. The MSOffice ribbon would take up have of the screen.

Those massive CRTs of yours probably cost more than a 27" IPS LCD does today...